If you find yourself frequently accessing the same note, notebook, search term, or tag, save yourself some time by pinning these often-used items to your Favorites Bar! This feature is available in Mac OS X 10.7+ and Windows, and it’s incredibly easy to use. Here’s how it works:

Just click on the item (note, notebook, search term, tag) you want to pin and drag it from its home into the Favorites Bar at the top of the screen.

Once it’s in your Favorites Bar, you can click on the item to bring up the note, the contents of the notebook, or view notes for the specified tag or search, without having to look through your account. If you decide you don’t need the item in your Favorites Bar anymore, just drag it out of the bar again and it will blend back into the rest of your notes.

Use your Favorites Bar to organize, prioritize, and create shortcuts to important information in your Evernote account.

I have been wondering why this isn’t a feature in OS X 10.6 — it’s something I’d love to use all the time, but it just seems silly to have to upgrade my entire operating system for it. I guess it’s not a simple update for the 10.6 desktop app?

I use this to pin my current project. I’m craving for something similar on the ipad.
Since evernote insists on flattening my notebook stacks it’s incredibly difficult to locate notebooks related to a project.
I started creating landing pages for projects a page with links to other notes that have content in them to help keep organised – i then drag then pin the landing page for easy access and then remove it when say the event/meeting is over.
It would be great to have some continue in this area from desktop–> ios.

Nice feature but removing Favourites does not really work. I can drag it off the bar as much as I want, and in any direction, but nothing happens except the mouse curser being changed to a crossed-through icon, indicating some forbidden action. What gives??
To manage the bar I can do nothing but reset it altogether. I hope this can be looked into.

Wow, just signed up for the free account and will be upgrading. The ability to search PDF is a feature I have been looking for. Also, as a management tool across work and other email accounts this is going to be amazing for me. Wonderful account with maximum utilization since it syncs between devices.

Not knowing this tip, I invented one of my own: I copied the heart pictograph from the character map on my computer and gave it a keyboard shortcut (in my case, with TextExpander). Then I made it a tag. I assign the ♥ tag only to those notes — regardless of category or subject matter — that I access all the time. With one click, there they are. Now I can drag the ♥ tag to my Favorites bar and make it even easier!